Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Windows Classical Music
Well, I've always loved classical music...too bad I'm not on Windows 95 anymore.

Humor
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:20:03 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |  Trackback
 Friday, June 12, 2009
Enabling PING in Windows Server 2008 and Vista
This is definitely not news, but I wanted to blog it anyway.

Having recently just reset a development server to use Windows Server 2008, I needed to open the firewall to allow ICMP packets through.  Essentially, I wanted to have the server respond to PING requests.  On a fresh Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 install (and I imagine Windows 7, though I've not checked), the ICMP protocol is blocked by default; the server won't respond to PINGs.  When you ping an IP address and don't get a reply that doesn't mean that there isn't a computer on the other end, but it sure is a handy way to check.

In Windows Vista/2008 enabling ICMP through the firewall isn't difficult, but if you want to use a GUI, you have to do it through an inbound rule in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security option.

Personally, I prefer to do it via the command-line through this simple operation: netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

Windows Vista | Windows Server 2008
Friday, June 12, 2009 3:41:21 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback